Packaging software and reliably deploying it is more complex than ever. Consumerization of IT and bring your own device (BYOD) are just some of the trends that are creating new challenges. The boundaries between work and personal life are blurring, and users are demanding consistent self-service access to corporate services from wherever they are, on multiple device types, including desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets.

In response, IT organizations are launching strategic initiatives to meet goals related to:

With so many initiatives in place, preparing and deploying applications in a reliable, consistent manner is complex, whether deployment is part of an operating system migration, application virtualization project, mobility initiative or every day application requests. Doing so in a cost-effective way is at the heart of driving application usage and greater productivity.

Key Phases to Full Lifecycle Application Packaging and Application Readiness

Flexera Software’s Application Readiness solutions offer substantial value to your enterprise. You can enhance their value by incorporating them into end-to-end management of the enterprise application lifecyle that encompass application packaging, delivery through an enterprise app store and software licensing optimization. With tight integration across these areas, you can streamline and automate the effort involved in keeping applications in a state of readiness for deployment into increasingly complex environments, making applications easily and immediately available to employees, and effectively managing software licenses to ensure continuous license compliance while optimizing software usage and minimizing spend.

Flexera Software products uniquely manage software usage strategically across the entire enterprise software lifecycle and have long been a de facto industry standard in application readiness and application packaging—core components of a strategic approach to Application Usage Management. More than 10,000 enterprise, government and educational institutions rely on our solutions to reliably and rapidly package more than one million applications.

AdminStudio provides enterprise IT teams with the most advanced application packaging tools to efficiently prepare reliable application packages for software deployment with a complete set of automated MSI packaging, customization, testing and reporting capabilities. Proven in benchmark tests to decrease application preparation time by up to 70%, AdminStudio hands off packages to leading software deployment tools.

AdminStudio Mobile enables centralized management of mobile apps with the same tools and processes used for physical and virtual applications. Test mobile apps for device and OS compatibility and report on the behavior, configuration and property settings of mobile applications to identify which apps require additional security assessment.

AdminStudio Virtual Desktop Assessment monitors the behavior of computers, users and applications, and provides full visibility into your desktop environment to help you plan more effectively, minimize risk and reduce user-centric computing and desktop virtualization costs.

Steve Schmidt, vice president of product management at Flexera Software, discusses the application compatibility and software packaging requirements to prepare for a migration to a new operating system or environment, such as virtualization. He explains how Flexera Software's AdminStudio can be used to help companies successfully complete these migrations and achieve continuous application readiness.

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The Escapades of Lucas and Application Delivery

Meet “Lucas”, head of Application Management for Mid2Mega Corp, managing the compatibility and availability of all applications at his company. Find out how AdminStudio and App Portal helped Lucas implement their Application Readiness Process.

Manage the Full Lifecycle of Your Software Assets

Meet Lucas, Head of Application Management and Dana, IT Asset Manager for Mid2Mega Corp. to learn how companies like yours can use Flexera Software enterprise solutions for a streamlined application readiness process that is integrated with your enterprise app store and software license optimization solution. View this short video to learn how.

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